Our Birthright of Healing

2014-03-01

The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, so much a part of a common human birthright, that we believers in technology pay very little attention to them. But they have lost none of their power.

People have been healing each other since the beginning. Long before there were surgeons, psychologists, oncologists, and internists, we were there for each other. The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness.

by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. from her book Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition published by Penguin Group in 2006.